[j-nsp] difference between "halt" and "power-off"

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:22:57PM -0700, Michel de Nostredame wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Martin T <m4rtntns at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the difference between "request system halt" and "request
> > system power-off" under JUNOS? Is there a possibility to completely
> > turn off the router remotely(for example in case of Cisco it's
> > impossible)?
> >
> > regards,
> > martin
> 
> >From my experience that power-off will "shutdown the power of the
> device", if the device could be powered off such as J-series routers.
> If the system is powered-off, you need someone / something to press
> the power button to bring it up. This is something like you power-off
> your laptop PC.
> 
> The halt will kill all processes and stand-by there, so you can press
> any key in console to bring up the system remotely.

With EX2200/EX4200 at least, they both do effectively the same
thing--I don't think there is any way to actually power off an EX
switch from software.